From: "Michael Stewart" <mike AT reggin DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Hello World and File size
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 16:19:53 +0100
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Igor I. Tovstopyat-Nelip wrote in message ...
>I've just tried it for the first time and immediately come up with the
>same question. C and C++ "hello" programs after compiling with djgpp have
>sizes 105 K and 287 K correspondingly. On the other hand when compiled
>with MS Visual C++ compiler their sizes are 28 k and 36 K.
>
>Are you sure that this big difference really goes away for large real-life
>programs?


Yup. As Eli mentioned earlier in the thread, the increase is additive.